Destination and product marketing

Today’s tourism industry is customer-centric and experience-based: visitors’ behavior is researched and customized travel services are developed to meet consumers’ preferences. Source market tour operators and travel agents are developing sophisticated new marketing techniques for segment and lifestyle groups. Unless Jordan employs equally sophisticated tourism marketing, research, and communication techniques, it will lose ground in this increasingly competitive tourism marketplace.

The USAID/Jordan Tourism Development Project II's marketing approach focuses on four main areas:
  1. Support GoJ, MoTA, JTB and the industry to improve capacity in destination marketing
  2. Develop partnerships to improve Jordan’s approach to international markets
  3. Strengthen niche, segmented, and product marketing initiatives
  4. Build sector capacity to plan and market tourism effectively

The adopted overall strategic approach is based on “destination marketing.” While Jordan itself is the overarching destination, JTDII will promote important sub-destinations with attractions for various visitor segments, particularly Amman, Aqaba, the Dead Sea cluster, and Petra. JTDII will support promotion of the Jordan destination through JTB and tour operators, and work with local DMCs to promote sub-destinations. This will help to strengthen tourism destination and product marketing for Jordan.

Know Your Market to Grow Your Market Seminar: Russia & India

30 January 2012

 

The Seminar is designed to provide tourism and hospitality professionals with insights on Jordan's main source tourism markets, to help enhance knowledge of the Russian and Indian markets and market segments; address seasonality and highlight the opportunities for Jordan as a destination in a vastly changing travel environment.

 

It will also include expert advice on countering the effects of regional events and maximizing target segments in the short and medium terms back into Jordan.

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